BLAS and LAPACK libraries required for compiling

Question

I recently downloaded the latest stable release of Gnu Octave, and was attempting to build and install it on my machine (Ubuntu 10.0.4 LTS 64bit).

When I run ./configure, I got this error message:

configure: error: You are required to have BLAS and LAPACK libraries

Does anyone know Where do I obtain these libraries from?

Answer 1

Try to run this

apt-get install libblas-dev libatlas-dev liblapack-dev

All libraries, required by octave package in ubuntu are listed here: http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/octave3.2 and to build new octave you need -dev packages of some listed libs.

The octave in ubuntu configured in rather maximal way - many optional parts of octave are turned on, and this leads to big list of libraries required.

To get most development (-dev) packages required by octave you can run:

apt-get install octave3.2-headers

which installs -dev-like package http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/octave3.2-headers of octave itself. This package depends on minimal -dev set and they will be installed after this command.